Livejournal provides a method to export your posts as XML. However this has to be done manually for every month of your blog. Also comments are exported separately. This tool makes exporting more convenient.
This project is a fork of arty-name / livejournal-export, with the following additions:
- Logs into LiveJournal with your username and password rather than needing cookie data.
- Lets you configure whether to download from LJ or load from already-downloaded files, and what formats to export.
Edit this file to specify:
- Your LiveJournal login details
- The range of years you want to download
- Whether to download posts and comments or read from already downloaded data.
(Set to
Falseto skip the downloading step and load from the files in posts-json and comments-json.) - Which formats to export
This script will do the exporting. Run it after you
have provided config as described above.
If all options are enabled, you will end up with
full blog contents in several formats. posts-html
folder will contain basic HTML of posts and comments.
posts-markdown will contain posts in Markdown format
with HTML comments and metadata necessary to
generate a static blog with Pelican.
posts-json will contain posts with nested comments
in JSON format should you want to process them further.
download_posts() will download your posts in XML into posts-xml
folder. Also it will create posts-json/all.json file with all
the same data in JSON format for convenient processing.
download_comments() will download comments from your blog as
comments-xml/*.xml files. Also it will create comments-json/all.json
with all the comments data in JSON format for convenient processing.
Requires Python 3 and the following modules:
html2textmarkdownbeautifulsoup4requests